Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA·Public·Medical school
60 labs on PI Pages. It spends $1.3B a year on research and awards 743 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 53,053: 44,139 undergraduates, 8,914 graduate
- Postdocs
- 416
- Faculty
- 4,174 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Yashar Mehmani
Engineering·Early-career
Map the regimes that determine whether volume-expanding mineral growth cracks porous rock open, exposing fresh reactive surface, or instead seals the pore space, using bench-scale experiments with microscale models coupling flow, reaction and fracture.
Sarah Shandera
Physics
Study how quantum reference frames, the different ways observers divide a system into local subsystems, shape the ensemble of open-system dynamics, and how robust its features are when the frame changes.
Kimberly Mallett
Psychology
Assess the feasibility of adding personalized transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) feedback, based on wearable skin sensors that track alcohol levels, to the eCHECKUP TO GO intervention for high-risk college drinkers.
Heike Pfau
Physics·Early-career
Use uniaxial pressure cells to strain unconventional superconductors and measure their changing electronic structure with angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), to uncover the interactions that cause electrons to pair.
Rebecca Napolitano
Engineering·Early-career
Identify which structural, social and preservation features best predict tornado damage and recovery of unreinforced masonry buildings, using remote sensing, field surveys, socio-economic data and random forest and gradient boosting models.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.